Meanings
plural toggeries
- countableuncountableClothing, togs.
1 more example
Old Sally, with her kind, mild, grave face, and gray locks, stood modestly behind in the hall; and pretty Lilias, his only child, gave him her parting kiss, and her last grand charge about his shoes and other exterior toggery, in the porch; and he patted her cheek with a little fond laugh, taking old John Tracy's, the butler's, arm. John carried a handsome horn-lantern, which flashed now on a roadside bush—now on the discoloured battlements of the bridge—and now on a streaming window.
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Rector’s Night-walk to His Church”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 20 - countableuncountableA clothing shop.
Origin
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toggery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toggery
“toggery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toggery. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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